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<p>This essay serves as the second installment of a four-part exchange titled “The Question of Ramakrishna’s Influence on Aurobindo: A Dialogue Between Peter Heehs and Swami Medhananda.” It offers a response to Peter Heehs’s critique of the claim that Sri Ramakrishna’s teachings on <i>vijñāna</i> significantly influenced Sri Aurobindo’s Vedāntic thought. Against Heehs, the essay argues that Ramakrishna’s conception of <i>vijñāna</i>—as the integral realization of the Divine as both personal and impersonal, the world as a real manifestation of the Divine, and the ability to move between <i>līlā</i> and <i>nitya</i>—provided a key hermeneutic framework for Aurobindo. Drawing on Aurobindo’s testimony, textual engagement with the <i>Kathāmṛta</i>, and doctrinal convergence, while employing Gary Browning’s criteria for influence, it defends the plausibility of Ramakrishna’s formative impact.</p>

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“We Derive from Ramakrishna”: Sri Ramakrishna’s Vijñāna and Its Influence on Sri Aurobindo’s Vedāntic Thought

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    2026年6月26日

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  • Swami Medhananda

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This essay serves as the second installment of a four-part exchange titled “The Question of Ramakrishna’s Influence on Aurobindo: A Dialogue Between Peter Heehs and Swami Medhananda.” It offers a response to Peter Heehs’s critique of the claim that Sri Ramakrishna’s teachings on vijñāna significantly influenced Sri Aurobindo’s Vedāntic thought. Against Heehs, the essay argues that Ramakrishna’s conception of vijñāna—as the integral realization of the Divine as both personal and impersonal, the world as a real manifestation of the Divine, and the ability to move between līlā and nitya—provided a key hermeneutic framework for Aurobindo. Drawing on Aurobindo’s testimony, textual engagement with the Kathāmṛta, and doctrinal convergence, while employing Gary Browning’s criteria for influence, it defends the plausibility of Ramakrishna’s formative impact.